Next month, the North Carolina Folk Festival will fill downtown Greensboro for three days with music, music-loving crowds and much more.
The North Carolina Folk Festival will be held Friday, September 9 through Sunday, September 11 and is free. However, those who attend are given the opportunity to make donations to support the event for free.
The North Carolina Folk Festival was established in 2018 as a successor to the National Folk Festival that was held in Greensboro from 2015 to 2017.
Its mission is to honor, celebrate and share “the meaningful ways in which communities express their creativity and cultural traditions through music, dance, food, crafts and other folk arts to increase appreciation of diverse traditions and contribute to vibrancy and community involvement”.
The NC Folk Festival announced three new performers for the 2022 event:
Kiko Villamizar, who was born in Miami and raised in his hometown and in Colombia. He performs and promotes traditional Colombian music with an emphasis on the Afro-Caribbean roots of cumbia, a rhythmic music and dance rooted in Colombia.
Larry Bellorin grew up in Venezuela and plays the 4-string instrument similar to the cuatro guitar and the llanear harp, an instrument that is native to the northern part of South America.
Caleb Serrano is a young gospel artist from Greensboro. In keeping with the era we live in, his career started when a video of him singing at a church event went viral on social media. In his short career, Serrano has shared the stage and toured with some of today’s biggest gospel stars and legends.
NC Folk Festival CEO and President Amy Grossman said in the press release, “We are pleased to announce three performers joining our exciting lineup for this year’s festival. Each of these performers shares elements of their cultural or faith-based identity through music and exemplifies the kinds of diverse creative expressions and traditions we seek to honor and celebrate each year on our stages.”
